CWRU goes wiki

Got all excited when I read in Crain's that Case had created its own wiki. Pictured brilliant professors holding forth on innumerable exciting topics.

Shucks. The wiki is about Case--the school and its environs. Well, though I'm disappointed that a great university is making a wiki just about itself, I'm sure the students won't be. They'll enjoy it immensely. And you and I can hope that maybe this is just a warmup for Case, and one day they'll actually start one on some academic subjects.

But then, I think of the time Case tech guru Lev Gonick (read his blog here) spoke on a NEOSA panel saying that bricks-and-mortar universities had better get real about technology or otherwise technology could one day grow so effective as to obviate the need for the bricks-and-mortar at all. Maybe universities don't want to give away their academic content after all.

Oops. Wanted to tell them to use sans serif and ended up putting it in there twice (seems there are two ways for non-logged-in people to leave comments). Hint: if you want to comment, hit the "plus sign" link rather than the "edit this page" link.